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Karachi Literature Festival goes to London

Karachi:April 21:To celebrate 70 years of Pakistan’s independence, Pakistan’s biggest literary event, the Karachi Literature Festival (KLF), pioneered by the Oxford University Press (Pakistan), travels to London, where it will be held at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, on May 20, 2017.
This was announced by Ameena Saiyid, managing director, Oxford University Press (OUP), Pakistan, at the UK Deputy High Commission on Thursday evening.

She said that with its unparalleled creative culture and diverse communities, London was the ideal place for the KLF to launch itself outside Pakistan.

The event, Saiyid said, would be an ideal opportunity for London’s South Asian population to acquaint themselves with the region’s rich culture and history.

The venture, she said, was to showcase Pakistan’s immense talent in the field of literature and creativity and to erase to as much an extent as possible the bad press that Pakistan had received in parts of the world, as a source of terrorism, bomb blasts and wanton bloodshed. “We would also like the world to be fully acquainted with the positive aspects of the country,” she said.

The programme would, by and large, comprise talks, interviews, panel discussions, Mushaira, children’s strand and all others that annually take place at the Karachi festival.

She said that Shahbano Bilgrami would be coming over from the US. Politician of Pakistani origin Baroness Warsi would be discussing her book, “A tale of Muslim Britain: the enemy within”.